Very good. I have a précis of Harrison's earlier Fall of Man and Foundations of Science and have read other articles of his. I think that 'history of ...
‘Saddha’, meaning ‘to place one’s heart upon’. It’s less about belief, more about insight, in the Buddhist context. It’s a very difficult distinction ...
I think Trump is acting spontaneously out of his admiration of Putin. He wants the power Putin has to destroy enemies and have journalists killed. Put...
I don’t think Putin or Russia did anything to cultivate Trump as an asset, but that nevertheless that is what he has become, much to Russia’s surprise...
It’s rather odd to ask this question in this context. A Zen koan is a deliberately puzzling or paradoxical challenge intended to demonstrate the inade...
The question is not apt, because the subject is ‘that to whom experience occurs’. The subject never appears as ‘that’. Another person may appear objec...
As I said - it's simply an analogy. The atoms of physicalism are nowadays understood as 'excitations of fields'. The fact that the mind might be under...
It's so transparently fallacious: every day, Russia is still sending waves of killer drones and missiles, attacking on several fronts, and causing and...
Kastrup has PhD's in computer science and philosophy. Where Kastrup entered the conversation again, was in the other thread, as the commentary you pro...
You can't condescend upwards. Oh, the irony. As it happens, Kastrup, whom I'm quoting, is perfectly conversant with quantum physics, indeed his first ...
The physicalist explanation would be that 'the whole of existence is due to the excitations in electromagnetic fields', which is the way atomic struct...
That passage was extracted from a longer essay and quoted in response to what I consider your fallacious description of idealism. The point being that...
You mean, the one in which you put your metaphorical arms around my shoulder, and clearly explained that you didn't know what I was talking about? Tha...
From the concluding sections of the same work, however, you find Wittgenstein's 'metaphysical aphorisms' The True and the Beautiful, right? And it is ...
You might be interested in someone I've discovered, Federico Faggin. I ran across his book Silicon a couple of years ago. He's a legendary Silicon Val...
As I understand it also, but do notice the very last sentence of that essay. Saying that metaphysics is empty or meaningless, as positivism does, is i...
I appreciate that. I'll try and articulate a point about my view of panpsychism or panexperientialism. I have a great deal of admiration for Whitehead...
Thanks, very helpful. That pretty well sums it up! Very subtle and important point. I think the common misconception is to believe that consciousness ...
No, I mean that if a real authoritarianism sets in, there will be no way to overturn it by democratic means. Remember Trump said during the campaign i...
The meaning of ‘apodictic’ is not subject to qualification. Something cannot be relatively apodictic. The point at issue is that sentient beings are, ...
‘If what is right and wrong depends on what each individual feels, then we’re outside the bounds of civilisation’ ~ Walter Lippmann (Journalist), quot...
I posted a link to a long article on Whitehead on the previous page, along with some excerpts. Here is another that I would like to understand. I too ...
I have an aphorism on my profile page which is trying to express a similar idea, 'Reality comes into existence through beings'. I'm not perfectly happ...
What happened on the 'Valentine's Day Massacre' at the NSAA is typical of the reckless endangerment of critical Government programs through the haphaz...
Hence the repeated references to a ‘constitutional crisis’, although, really, Trump’s election was already one, as he had patently and obviously engag...
I would regard the presumption that other beings are like myself as apodictic. I wouldn’t be so egotistical as to believe otherwise. And real life is ...
And let's, at this point, remember the episode which made Zelenskyy an internationally-respected figure, when the US Embassy offered to helicopter him...
You're making lliterally sense. The Greek myth of Sisyphus is that of a legendary or mythical king who was sentenced to punishment in Hades by having ...
I referenced the Greek myth. Let's see what the Brittanica has to say: 'The scene of fruitless labors'. And how, precisely, does this map against 'hap...
The appeal to Nietszche as an authority doesn't impress me. By 'sisyphean' I simply mean the common interpretation of engaging in strenuous and appare...
There is no 'Christian mythology of Sisyphus', it was a Greek myth. Sisyphus was described as the cunning and deceitful king of Corinth (Ephyra in ear...
Comments on January 6th revisionism belong in another thread. Maybe the Trump thread - Count Timothy, as you're a mod, perhaps you might be so kind as...
I see it, but I believe it is pointless, in a way, sisyphean. But then, my meta-philosophical stance is oriented around the possibility of a cosmic ph...
Having bludgeoned the Congress into pathetic submission, MAGA is now setting its sights on the judiciary, the last remaining bastion of constitutional...
One of today's headlines: "DOGE presses to check federal benefits payments against IRS tax records - Officials with Elon Musk’s group say they want to...
I don't know enough to say whether it's Husserl's thought, but I cross-checked it with my AI buddy Chuck (a.k.a. ChatGPT4) which responded 'Overall, t...
Does look interesting, albeit (groan) yet another book. I don't know if you've had much interaction with the sometime contributor here, Apokrisis, but...
I think it's a key term which has to all intents dropped from philosophical discourse. That it was arguably last sighted in Hegel, with his depiction ...
Yes, I can see how it would seem like that. But again, we're no closer to the sense in which religious revelation purports to connote insight into the...
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